EUROPEAN GOLF DESIGN

European Golf Design was established in 1992 as a Joint Venture between the European Tour and IMG, in order to provide a golf course design service for both parent companies and their various tournament and client based golf projects. European Golf Design has made a name for itself by consistently producing high quality and successful resorts, membership and tournament golf courses, on schedule and within budget.

European Golf Design has a wide scope of expertise in golf course design, landscape design, land planning, agronomy and computerised multi-media services. European Golf Design’s wealth of experience provides golf course design services of an unrivaled level of service to clients around the world. Importantly, by combining the core skills of the Design team with the unique elements of a site, European Golf Design aim to create an individual character for each new course.

IMG Academies

Spanning over 300 acres in sunny Florida, IMG Academies (IMGA) is the most advanced, state-of-the-art, multi-sport training and educational facility ever created. With two private academic schools on campus and students from over 100 countries, IMGA is the largest and most successful training facility ever created for athletes. Nowhere else in the world do aspiring and professional athletes in a variety of sports bond in one place within such a dynamic and motivating environment. IMGA delivers world-class sports training experiences to over 12,000 junior, collegiate, adult and professional athletes each year. In fact, IMGA can custom design a sports/recreation experience for every member of the family.

The IMGA campus provides an inspiring and integrated support environment for athletes to excel in the following sports; golf, tennis (the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy), soccer, baseball, basketball and swimming.

IAGTO

Established in 1997, IAGTO's membership comprises of more than 1400 golf resorts, golf courses, hotels, receptive operators, airlines, tourist boards, approved media and business partners in 80 countries including, at its core, 350 specialist golf tour operators in over 50 countries. IAGTO's operators control over 80% of golf vacation packages sold out of Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Australasia, with annual sales of more than €1 billion.

IAGTO is the offical Association Patrner of the International Golf Travel Market (IGTM) which has become the industry's annual trade show where more than 10,000 meetings take place between buyers and suppliers. The IAGTO Awards in partnership with Virgin Atlantic reward the achievements of undiscovered, emerging and established golf destinations and golf resorts each year and climax with the Honourary Award which has been presented to some of the world's most influential goflers and industry figures. IAGTO also administers the International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA).

One of IAGTO's primary roles is to assist emerging and established golf destinations together with individual golf resorts position themselves to deliver the best possible experience to the visiting golfer, and to generate sustainable growth in golf tourism. IAGTO also acts to maintain and raise standards throughout the golf travel industry.